Ep.263 – The German Colonies in the First World War – Prof Matt Fitzpatrick

Historian Professor Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia, talks about his research into the fate of two Imperial German colonial possessions, German Cameroon and German Samoa, in the opening months of the First World War.

Matt discusses why Germany acquired them, how Germany administered them and what happened to them in the opening months of the Great War.

Prof. Fitzpatrick specialises in international history, in particular German and European history, as well as the history of European imperialism, German liberalism and nationalism. He is also interested in the comparative history of empires, and intellectual history. 

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